June 8, 2017Attorneys and statistical experts refuted a recent court-appointed monitor’s report on the New York City Police Department's stop-and-frisk practices, saying Wednesday that it misrepresented and...
June 9, 2017It also shows blacks are more likely than whites to get frisked, but less likely than whites to have a weapon on them when it happens. "I think really at the end of the day, what we need to see in...
July 8, 2021... More importantly, the policy's definition of "reasonable suspicion" has not been sufficiently defined to prevent stops of people on baseless observations, making it impossible to implement...
February 21, 2020... When Darius Charney saw this speech, he was skeptical of Bloomberg’s remorse. Starting in 2008, he and his colleagues at the Center for Constitutional Rights had spent five years suing the city...
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:15 PM Day-long CLE symposium AGENDA 9:00 - 9:30 a.m.: Breakfast & CLE Registration 9:30 - 9:45: Opening Remarks Cristina Rodriguez, New York University School of...
Updated: February 25, 2008
April 3, 2020... “Absolutely this was targeting male New Yorkers, and of course Black and Latinx male New Yorkers,” says Nahal Zamani, the advocacy program manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), “...
December 1, 2021... Natalie Wilson explains that Black children are disproportionately labeled runaways by law enforcement, and this label is important because amber alerts are not sent out for runaways. Among the...
October 9, 2018...Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled in 2013 that the law violated the Fourth Amendment rights of citizens , and that the practice was “racially discriminatory” because of the disproportionate numbers of...
It’s a question our legal team gets asked all the time: What is it like visiting Guantánamo? From the food options on the island to why it’s important to keep fighting against the continued...
Updated: September 8, 2021
May 30, 2017..."I think really at the end of the day, what we need to see in not only the New York City Police Department, but in police departments around the country is really a culture change, that we move...
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